Family Help assessments

Family Help – Your Family Assessment

Please note some of the documents within this page are CSCP branded; they are currently being reviewed. 

Your Family Assessment process

Identify unmet need

An unmet need is identified and cannot be effectively addressed by a single agency and therefore requires a multi-agency response.

Check for existing Your Family Assessment

determine whether a Your Family Assessment is already in place
If a Your Family Assessment exists, a Partnership Support Officer can provide the name of the current lead professional, who will be informed about initiating the Your Family Review process

No existing Your Family Plan

If there is no Your Family Assessment in place, discuss the need for one with the child, young person, and parents to request consent

Consent given

begin the Your Family Assessment process with the child, young person, and their parents/carers.
the initiating agency should complete as much of the assessment as is appropriate and submit it using the https://contactus.digital.westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk/w/webpage/early-help-assessment

Initiate the Your Family Review process

establish the Your Family Review process, involving all relevant agencies and the family
ensure all agencies present complete the relevant sections of the Your Family Assessment

Review and monitor progress

continue the Your Family Review, updating the Your Family Plan as needed and following progress towards the child’s well-being and success goals

if progress is slow or static, consider a referral to the Family Help and Family Support Panel

Closure of the Your Family Assessment

close the Your Family Assessment once all needs are met or if there are other valid reasons for closure

follow the ‘Step Up’ procedure if necessary all closures must be completed using the

If at any time from initiating the agency or during Your Family review the lead professional changes, the current Lead Professional completes the Online Family Help Change of Lead Professional Form.

If an Your Family Assessment closes but later additional unmet needs are identified, either update original assessment or begin a new assessment and register the assessment.

A Your Family Assessment is a voluntary process and therefore parents - and children where appropriate - should be fully engaged in the process. Consent must be given.

To find out if there's an assessment registered to the family already, you can contact the Family Help team. 

Alternatively, you can send an email to: family.help.waf@cumbria.gov.uk

Family Help assessment forms - Westmorland and Furness

Feedback from families in Westmorland and Furness

At the last Your Family Review meeting, when it is agreed the Your Family Assessment can be closed, please ask family members to complete the feedback form accessed from this QR code (new QR code to be developed)

Westmorland and Furness Your Family Assessment and Review process

There have been some minor amendments to the Your Family Assessment and Review Process in Westmorland and Furness.